On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:45:24PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > [snip] > > > > For more info, read the debian-vote mailing lists archive.
> > > > And welcome to debian politics :) > > > Hmm, I wonder what this means for the firmware blob issues.. > > Firmware is software, they can't be considered as data or documentation > > by any stretch of the imagination, so they still need to go, i think. > I can't see that. Properly licensed firmware was ok under the old > release policy/SC interpretation, and the vote simply reverts to > that one until sarge releases. It is not that simple. The only thing that http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_004 changed is that the DFSG is not applied to everything in Debian but only to "software" which allows us to ship non-free docs in main. The problem with the firmware is orthogonal to that it is the kernel's license - the kernel is GPL, therefore you need to provide Sourcecode for all parts (including the firmware) to be allowed to distribute it at all. Otherwise you are breaking the license. I do not like this but I am completely at loss to argue differently. cu andreas
